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Foundation Dinner on Thursday, November 26.  This will be in the Platinum Room at The Foundry with excellent sound and vision,

wonderful food and good service.  The room will be exclusively ours. 

Guest speaker will be returned Peace Scholar Stephanie Woollard who founded Seven Women in Nepal. 

Following on the theme, on Sunday, November 29 a documentary on Seven Women will be screened at The Star Cinema at 2pm.

organised by RC Eaglehawk with afternoon tea and a stall of products for sale.  This documentary will be screened in Sydney and Melbourne

in 2016 but we are fortunate to have an advanced preview.

​Report on the Marina Prior concert.....

Over 900 members of the Bendigo community and beyond filled every seat in the house of Bendigo's new Ulumbarra theatre. They were all there

to see the Rotary Club of Bendigo South's first foray into musical theatre, presenting Marina Prior and the Victoria Welsh Choir.

Accompanying the two larger musical acts was Kaitlin White of Bendigo Senior Secondary College, who last year was awarded the

Rotary Club's inaugural musical bursary award. Kaitlin played a well known tune on the piano to the packed out house. 

Singing beautiful melodies from many of her past stage musical appearances, Marina Prior also regaled those in attendance with her experiences

playing Christine in the Phantom of the Opera. On this occasion however, it was not so much a case of the Music of the Night, moreover Music of a

wonderful Day, with members of the Victoria Welsh Choir also singing several songs in accompaniment with Ms Prior.

It was great to see so many people from all walks of Bendigo turn out for the community concert, as well as fellow District 9800 Rotarians and

their partners, who had come from around the Goldfields cluster and beyond to support the concert. By enjoying a great afternoon of music,

Past President Rod Spitty summed it up well when he spoke on stage of the Rotary Club being in partnership with the community.

By attending the concert, the community was also helping to bring the new theatre to the people, as well as contributing towards future secondary

school musical scholarships. When the performers took their final bow at the end of the concert, members of the Rotary Club of Bendigo South looked

around in amazement at the number of people in attendance, knowing that now the concert had been successfully staged, all of the hard work along

the way had been worth it. 

It is envisaged that a similar concert featuring the Victoria Welsh Choir will be held at the Ulumbarra theatre every two years, so if you didn't get a

ticket this time, be sure to get in early for 2017.

​This week our guest speaker was an Exercise Physiologist and we were all put through a rigorous training regime.

​Some didn't appear to be on the same page

​Danny had the right idea..........